Recipes
The most delicious seasonal recipes to make at home.
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How to make Shaun Rankin's grouse with blackcurrant and celeriac puree
Shaun Rankin, chef patron of Grantley Hall in the Yorkshire Dales, shares a truly special grouse recipe, with these birds having just come into season.
By Country Life Published
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How to make carrot and honey cake with mascarpone honey icing
Proof that, even when the sun is beating down and the mercury is working its way towards 100 degrees, it's never the wrong time for cake.
By Country Life Published
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How to make blackberry jam: A quick and easy recipe
Reader Sam reveals how to make simple fruit jam in 20 minutes without pectin or a thermometer.
By Country Life Published
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How to make Princess Anne's favourite recipe — including the special ingredient that's probably already in your cupboard
HRH The Princess Royal has guest edited Country Life's 29 July 2020 issue — and one of the features covers her favourite game recipe, devilled pheasant.
By Country Life Published
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How to make gooseberry and elderflower tart, a perfect seasonal summer dessert
It's peak gooseberry season, and the ideal time to make this delicious tart.
By Country Life Published
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Tom Parker-Bowles: Broad beans, the 'quintessence of early summer' that show the brute power of culinary simplicity
Once believed to be vessels for the souls of the recently departed, a freshly picked pod with broad beans nestling in their velvety white casing is a seasonal obsession for Tom Parker Bowles.
By Tom Parker Bowles Published
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How to make Mac and Wild’s Venison Chateaubriand
Scottish chef Andy Waugh shares one of his favourite venison recipes, just as the quality and availability of this meat reaches its peak.
By Country Life Published
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Tom Parker-Bowles' guide to tomatoes — and the recipe that 'is probably the most useful item in any store cupboard'
When it comes to tomatoes, Tom Parker-Bowles only has one rule: keep them the hell away from the fridge.
By Tom Parker Bowles Published
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How to make rack of lamb with harissa, asparagus and garlic-and-almond sourdough crumbs
Now's the time to enjoy British-grown asparagus.
By Melanie Johnson Published
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How to make perfect asparagus risotto, with the vegetable that's 'one of the true joys of English spring and summer'
Asparagus is a delight even when simply steamed and eaten hot with lashings of melted butter, but it's even more of a joy when dotted through a fresh-tasting risotto, says Tom Parker Bowles.
By Tom Parker Bowles Published
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How to make a triple-layer Victorian cake with peaches, cream and maple syrup
If you're going to make a cake, make it a good one. Make it this one.
By Country Life Published
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How to make perfect scotch eggs, for the ideal back garden picnic
This recipe from top caterers Doggart & Squash will help you make that type of delicious, fresh scotch egg which you get at lovely events, but will never, ever find at a supermarket.
By Country Life Published
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A 'serious fish pie recipe' with some fabulous extra surprises for extra texture and taste
Fish pie is always a winner, but the chefs of Fortnum & Mason have a few extra touches which elevate this recipe still further.
By Country Life Published
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How to make pasta with radicchio, pear, walnut and feta
Radicchio's bitter leaves add interesting flavours to this spring pasta dish.
By Melanie Johnson Published
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An unbeatable shoulder-of-lamb shepherd's pie recipe ideal for Easter, as dreamed up by the chefs at Fortnum & Mason
If you're looking for a dish that mixes show-stopper with comfort food, this is just ideal.
By Country Life Published
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How to make Nathan Outlaw's asparagus with fried sourdough breadcrumbs
Grilled asparagus with fried sourdough breadcrumbs in butter and lemon, parsley and garlic. Yes, it's as good as it sounds.
By Country Life Published
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How to make banana bread, the ultimate comfort food of lockdown
Rosie Paterson is famed, and rightly so, for her banana bread. As its popularity sweeps the nation like never before, she shares her classic recipe.
By Rosie Paterson Published
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How to make Tom Aikens' blueberry pancakes
Who says pancakes are only for Shrove Tuesday? If you're among the millions who haven't given up dairy for Lent, this recipe from chef and restauranteur Tom Aikens is a wonderful weekend breakfast.
By Country Life Published
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How to make a refreshing and delicious clementine cake
Clementine cake with almonds and clementine creme diplomat is a scrumptious treat that probably just about qualifies as one of your five-a-day. Well, maybe.
By Melanie Bryan Published
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How to cook Dover sole with shrimps and tomato, as recommended by Tom Parker-Bowles
Dover sole is a fish that can be kept as simple as can be, yet adding a little extra from time to time can reap rewards.
By Tom Parker Bowles Published
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Recipe: Keeper's Pie, a gamey upgrade on a traditional English classic dish
This dish adds a deliciously seasonal twist on traditional shepherd's pie or cottage pie.
By Country Life Published


